Subject: MYSTARA-L Digest - 16 Jun 2005 to 17 Jun 2005 (#2005-125) From: Automatic digest processor Date: 18/06/2005, 17:00 To: Recipients of MYSTARA-L digests Reply-to: Mystara RPG Discussion There are 3 messages totalling 127 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. On the newbie guide (2) 2. New Heraldry Style ******************************************************************** The Other Worlds Homepage: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp The Mystara Homepage: http://www.pandius.com To unsubscribe, send email to LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM with UNSUB MYSTARA-L in the body of the message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 11:39:56 +0300 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ville_V_L=E4hde?= Subject: Re: On the newbie guide This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. ---559023410-1804928587-1118997069=:16703 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=ISO-8859-1; FORMAT=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-ID: I had almost forgotten this topic. Indeed, this project would be nice to get underway. I have at last managed to get my home computer and home net access working again, so I might get the chance to work at this in the near future. We recently started a weekly campaign for players who have never played in Mystara, so I have had to do a lot of work in introducing the world for them. I just have to remember this project when I have time for it - and that is usually my problem, bad memory. "The same head during summers and winters", as we say in Finland. There's a lot of material in the list archives, so I'll try to keep people's opinions in mind. On another topic: In our new campaign I introduced the idea of "comparative theology" in an encounter at the Desert Garden University. A huge debate arose about the identities of "gods". "Those treacherous Thyatians have for ages been trying to co-opt the religions of others! We all know about their shameful claims that their fiery Ixion is Tubak of Ethengars, or that Cretia of Ethengars is Loki of Northmen, who - how conveniently - is Farbautides of Thyatis! As Nahmeh states: 'Those of weak mind and heart shall invade you by words and foul treatises.'!" ******************************************************* Ville Lähde University of Tampere Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Philosophy 33014 Tampere, Finland phone: (work) 03 215 7573 (home) 040 7776772 email: Ville.V.Lahde@uta.fi http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/mattiet/filosofia/lahde.htm ******************************************************* ---559023410-1804928587-1118997069=:16703-- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 12:11:27 +0200 From: Giampaolo Agosta Subject: Re: On the newbie guide Ville V Lähde wrote: > > I had almost forgotten this topic. Oh, indeed it was quite old -- I just managed to read a number of messages I had left behind. > I just have to remember this project when I have time for it - > and that is usually my problem, bad memory. "The same head during > summers and winters", as we say in Finland. :) > In our new campaign I introduced the idea of "comparative > theology" in an encounter at the Desert Garden University. A huge > debate arose about the identities of "gods". I like this. I know some people think that the Immortals are so involved with the mortal world that they wouldn't let such arguments grow among their followers, but I prefer to have Immortals not that much involved on such things, so I definitely agree that there is much space for theology debates. GP ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 23:43:40 -0700 From: Brendan Corliss Subject: New Heraldry Style So I've been taking a bit of a break on my CC2 Known World map (don't worry, I'm almost done with Minrothad) and I thought I'd experiment a bit with some new heraldry artwork I've gotten. Here's my first test run. It's the full achievement of Alfheim's coat of arms: http://www.geocities.com/brendan_corliss/heraldry/alfheim/alfheim.htm Let me know if you guys think I'm on the right track stylistically. -Damon aka Brendan Corliss Corliss Enterprises, Ltd. Darokin City "May all of your endeavours be Golden!" ____________________________________________________ Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of MYSTARA-L Digest - 16 Jun 2005 to 17 Jun 2005 (#2005-125) ****************************************************************